I’m honestly not sure what you’re arguing for. All politicians lie constantly. I’m sure the ones you named also lie frequently. It’s all just mind games to confuse people during a war.

It doesn’t exactly take mental gymnastics to think Putin might lie about something if he thinks it’ll give him an advantage.

The first A in NASA is aeronautics. They just do the science. I would say deregulation is a fairly strong word here. It’s more like they’d be updating the laws to reflect modern tech.

Amazon is definitely not the only one doing cloud infrastructure. I really don’t think we’d be pissing anyone off.